Development of an information engineering and management program

Author

Callahan, Dale W. ; Pedigo, Robert M.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Alabama Univ., Birmingham, AL, USA

Volume

46

Issue

1

fYear

2003

fDate

2/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

114

Abstract

A shortage of executive-level technical talent exists in industry that is not being filled by educational institutions. The University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) worked with corporate executives to identify how the talent gap could be closed. This paper gives the results of two years of work in the development of a new Master´s degree specialty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UAB. The entire process from defining the objectives of an educational program to developing courses and managing a special group of executive students is covered.

Keywords

educational courses; engineering education; engineering information systems; management education; management information systems; Birmingham; Master´s degree; University of Alabama; courses development; educational institutions; executive students; executive-level technical talent shortage; graduate school; information engineering; information engineering program; information management program; information technology; management information systems; Companies; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering management; Humans; Information management; Information technology; Management information systems; Robustness; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TE.2002.808261

Filename

1183674